You can find this out at http://bookshelved.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GishuPillai
This is a pretty nice effort where you can keep an eye on what someone else is reading currently and is also a great way of finding cool TO-Reads ! A thumbs up of whoever came up with this idea.
Thanks Owen Rogers <http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/exortech/> for showing this to me via your blog.
I DO IT is a just a letter away from IDIOT
I kill myself ... most of the time. This is a sure-fire poster line or a t-shirt.
If I had a 10 Rupee note for all the times that I got myself into a 'HowthehelldidIgetmyselfintothis' situation. The answer usually is a reluctant 'I'll do it' in the past. An thoughtless/indifferent Ok comes a close number 2.
Moral of the story: Avoid committment unless absolutely necessary.
If I had a 10 Rupee note for all the times that I got myself into a 'HowthehelldidIgetmyselfintothis' situation. The answer usually is a reluctant 'I'll do it' in the past. An thoughtless/indifferent Ok comes a close number 2.
Moral of the story: Avoid committment unless absolutely necessary.
Book Review: IACOCCA ***1/2
To the uninitiated, Lee Iacocca, the son of an Italian immigrant, worked for Ford for thirty years, rose from the ranks to get the Presidency and then was unfairly fired by Henry Ford II in the mid 1970s. He and his team were responsible for Ford's Mustang and Mark III, which helped Ford keep within distance of General Motors the giant in the field. But then the eccentric Henry Ford (who's literally runs the company to his whims) fires him and tries to humiliate him publicly as he gets too close to the 'crown'. Lee has the option to take this lying down but he chooses to get even. He joins Chrysler the third and last player in the auto game, which is on the brink of being declared bankrupt. He assembles his dream team from his colleagues at Ford (some of which he had to fire himself as per Henry's orders). He then does a 'Rocky Balboa' to bring Chrysler back from the dead with the K-Car. The most memorable newspaper cartoon (some clippings are included in the book) is a Chrysler car coming out with all cylinders firing from a grave.The book touches on many things like the recoil on his personal life, the rise of mediocrity, the discriminatory policies, the smart Japanese turning US into a colony of sorts, bureaucratic bullshit, turning into a public figure with his innovative commercials, and more. You see some mind boggling figures in this book being moved about like change. e.g. one of his lines "$1 million is like small change in the auto-business."
In short, a real life grim fairy tale. I enjoyed reading Iacocca's autobiography.
I found Iacocca to be a very practical guy, working with figures and doing what needed to be done without regret. Move fast and decisively and as he says there are no free lunches.
Here are some quotes from the man himself. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lee_iacocca.html
In short, a real life grim fairy tale. I enjoyed reading Iacocca's autobiography.
I found Iacocca to be a very practical guy, working with figures and doing what needed to be done without regret. Move fast and decisively and as he says there are no free lunches.
Here are some quotes from the man himself. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lee_iacocca.html
Stumped!
Note: To make this somewhat funny, you need to know your Hindu epics - Ramayana.
This sunday, Me and my nephew (seen in the pic beside) caught up on our time-killing manifesto. So we wandered around looking at things. My nephew was up for it since he wanted to see all the Ganapati idols. So we reached a elaborate setup where they had this big Ganapati idol surrounded by moving robot-like other gods. On the left was a flying Hanuman, a mountain raised in one hand and the other hand waving his mace. So I asked my nephew, why has Hanuman lifted the mountain ? I was expecting a straight "I don't know" in all honesty. But pat came the reply "Because he wanted to wave his stick under it like this" and he proceeded to mimic Hanuman's waving of the mace.Now come I didn't think of that..
This sunday, Me and my nephew (seen in the pic beside) caught up on our time-killing manifesto. So we wandered around looking at things. My nephew was up for it since he wanted to see all the Ganapati idols. So we reached a elaborate setup where they had this big Ganapati idol surrounded by moving robot-like other gods. On the left was a flying Hanuman, a mountain raised in one hand and the other hand waving his mace. So I asked my nephew, why has Hanuman lifted the mountain ? I was expecting a straight "I don't know" in all honesty. But pat came the reply "Because he wanted to wave his stick under it like this" and he proceeded to mimic Hanuman's waving of the mace.Now come I didn't think of that..
Clocks
I just hit upon one of my inane NON-timesavers. While coming to work today, I decided to ruminate/meditate/what-have-you on the reason why I'm always late for work... Apart from the top 3 reasons
1. I LOVE MY SLEEP TIME
2. I restain myself from beating up someone.
3. I restrain myself from just ending it all.
However these cannot be improved upon. So while taking my daily rickshaw (it's a no suspension motorized souped-up tricycle driven by local motorheads who are paid (by us) to scare the beejeezus out of us and loosen all body joints .) I hit upon one of the possible reasons.
To put some context into this, a one-way journey has 4 segments.
Seg 1. Rick Ride from House to Rail Station
Seg 2. Train To Point A.
Seg 3. Rick Ride from Point A to office.
Seg 4. I obviously don't know to count
I have 5 clocks all of which show different times.
Clock 1. This is the home wall clock. This appears to be in sync with the TV programmes half hour blocks and Dad won't let me change it (BBC time compliant!)
Clock 2. This is my emergency alarm clock that is burdened with the fruitless job of waking me up. This is 15 mins ahead of clock one to compensate for Snooze delay.
Clock 3. This is time set on my cell-phone. This is 5 mins behind Clock2. This is the one I refer when I'm on the move.
Clock4. This is the clock hanging at the rail station. I heavily suspect some morbid creature toying with it because every morning my train leaves me stranded after a 0-60 frenzy dash. I then make a note of the difference to my phone-time. Only to be screwed royally again the next day. Touche!
Clock5. is the office clock, which is always 2 mins behind and announces my late in-times. I stand by it panting and wheezing !
Even with 5 clocks if I can't be on time, why the hell bother !! I'm gonna sleep extra tomorrow to appease my hurt punctuality.
1. I LOVE MY SLEEP TIME
2. I restain myself from beating up someone.
3. I restrain myself from just ending it all.
However these cannot be improved upon. So while taking my daily rickshaw (it's a no suspension motorized souped-up tricycle driven by local motorheads who are paid (by us) to scare the beejeezus out of us and loosen all body joints .) I hit upon one of the possible reasons.
To put some context into this, a one-way journey has 4 segments.
Seg 1. Rick Ride from House to Rail Station
Seg 2. Train To Point A.
Seg 3. Rick Ride from Point A to office.
Seg 4. I obviously don't know to count
I have 5 clocks all of which show different times.
Clock 1. This is the home wall clock. This appears to be in sync with the TV programmes half hour blocks and Dad won't let me change it (BBC time compliant!)
Clock 2. This is my emergency alarm clock that is burdened with the fruitless job of waking me up. This is 15 mins ahead of clock one to compensate for Snooze delay.
Clock 3. This is time set on my cell-phone. This is 5 mins behind Clock2. This is the one I refer when I'm on the move.
Clock4. This is the clock hanging at the rail station. I heavily suspect some morbid creature toying with it because every morning my train leaves me stranded after a 0-60 frenzy dash. I then make a note of the difference to my phone-time. Only to be screwed royally again the next day. Touche!
Clock5. is the office clock, which is always 2 mins behind and announces my late in-times. I stand by it panting and wheezing !
Even with 5 clocks if I can't be on time, why the hell bother !! I'm gonna sleep extra tomorrow to appease my hurt punctuality.
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